30 Great Reductions in this Catalogue 



MARY A. PRATTEN. 



My Hundred Swiss Flowers. With a Short Account of Swiss Ferns. 



With 60 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, plain plates, 12s. 6d. ; coloured 



plates, 25s. 



"The temptation to produce such books as this seems irresistible. The author 



feels a want ; the want is undeniable. After more or less hesitation he feels he can 



supply it. It is pleasantly written, and affords useful hints as to localities." — 



AtJienceum. 



S. L. PUMPHREY. 



A Little Brown Pebble, with 10 full-page cuts. Fcap. 4to, 3s. 6d, 



"In the story of ' A Little Brown Pebble,' its writer endeavours to introduce geo- 

 logical science into the nursery, showing what strange creatures lived in the ancient 

 seas, what monsters inhabited the primeval forests, and how our country alternated 

 between torrid heats and an arctic cold. The accuracy of the information is guaran- 

 teed by competent authorities, and the illustrations are spirited. There is no reason 

 why the attempt should not succeed."— /lcadc?«?/, 21st December 1889. 



R. RIMMER, F.L.S. 



The Land and Freshwater Shells of the British Isles. Illus- 

 trated with 10 Photographs and 3 Lithographs, containing figures of 

 all the principal Species. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s. 

 " This handsomely got up little volume supplies a long-felt want in a very ingenious 

 and trustworthy manner. The author is an enthusiastic conchologist, and writes 

 both attractively and wel'. and in a manner so simple and natural that we have no 

 fear that any ordinarily educated man will easily understand every phrase. But the 

 feature of this book which strikes us most is that every species of British land and 

 freshwater shell has been photographed, and here wo have all the photographs, natural 

 size in the albprtype process, so that the merest tyro will find no difficulty in identi- 

 fying any shell he may find." — Science Review. 



/. SMITH, A.L.S. 



Ferns : British and Foreign. Fourth Edition, revised and greatly en- 

 larged, with many illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. 



"Each genus is described, and the technical characters upon which it is founded 

 are shown in the accompanying illustrations, and the indispensable technical terms 

 are explained by examples The meaning and derivations of the botanical names of 

 ferns are also given in sufficient detail and with sufficient accuracy to meet the wants 

 of amateurs, if not of scholars. But perhaps the most valuable part of the work is that 

 devoted to instruction in the cultivation of ferns, which occupies some seventy pages 

 of the book. A bibliography of the subject and an excellent index make up the 

 remainder of this useful volume, which we recommend to all persons desirous of know- 

 ing something more about ferns than being able to recognise them by sight." — Field. 



" Mr Smith's work entitles him to admiration for his industry and for the manifest 

 care with which he has studied his subject ; and his present enlarged work will certainly 

 become and be a standard library book of reference for all pteridologists and orna- 

 mental gardeners (whether professional or amateur) who devote attention to flliculture. 

 And there really is no family of plants which is more elegant than are ferns. Indi- 

 genous British ferns alone afford a most interesting scope of research and collection." 

 — Whitehall Review. 



" This is a new and enlarged edition of one of the best extant works on British 

 and foreign ferns which has been called for by the introduction, during the interval 

 of ten years which has elapsed since the issue of the first edition, of a number of exotic 

 species which have been collected and arranged under their respective genera and 

 tribes as an appendix. There are thus introduced 234 entirely new species. The sixty 

 pages devoted to a treatise on the cultivation of ferns are invaluable to the fern-grower, 

 professional or amateur, describing the conditions under v^hich ferns giowin their 

 native country— knowledge which is essential to their really successful cultivation 

 in this."— Rtiral World. 



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